MERGE in Delta Lake: Same Syntax, Different Engine
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The Context Problem Neither Agent Mesh Nor OpenSharing Solves
I wrote recently about Azure Agent Mesh and OpenSharing — two infrastructure layers that between them cover how enterprises register, discover, share, and execute agents. Between them, they address a lot of the plumbing that has been missing from the enterprise agent stack. But there's a gap neither of
Unity AI Gateway and What a Governed Model Access Layer Actually Buys You
Unity AI Gateway, announced at DAIS this week, is the feature I've been waiting for since Agent Bricks shipped last year. It's a centralized governance layer for model access in Databricks — you configure which models are approved for use in your environment, who can call them,
You Don't Need Fable. You Need a Router.
The performance gap between open-weight models and closed frontier models has spent the last year collapsing faster than anyone predicted. Epoch AI's tracking puts open weights at roughly a three-to-four-month lag behind state-of-the-art closed models on average. For coding tasks, the gap has effectively closed — DeepSeek V3.2
DAIS 2026: Genie One and the Context Problem Databricks Is Solving
The central message from DAIS this week, delivered by Ali Ghodsi in the opening keynote, was direct: AI doesn't have an intelligence problem, it has a context problem. If your CFO can't get an AI system to explain why margins changed, that's not a